You can download these seamless tiles, in .bmp or .jpg format, for use as your desktop wallpaper or for webpage backgrounds. This is absolutely freeware, though you can to tell me if you like them. Please be nice and DO NOT link directly to the images on this web page!!!

All images were scanned from actual photographs or dried plant specimens and manipulated using The Gimp, free graphics software now available in a refreshing Windows version (Everybody Loves The Gimp).

You can download the images individually, in either .jpg or .bmp format, from this web site (Windows/Unix/Linux users, use right mouse button; Mac users hold down mouse button) - use the "Save Link As" option. Note that the images in Set #1 and #2 have been resized for maximum viewing efficiency; the actual tiles are larger.

Set #1: Mattonelle di piante

I've put together a collection of tiles made from wildflower photos that I took in Italy in the summer of 1999.